Loading ...You are exactly right!
But in their defense, they had no choice – they were financing a war for their existence.
At the conclusion of the war the expression “not worth a Continental” was in reference to their money ?
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drb2 @ 17:51
If the colonists had continued using their own issue of paper money eventually it’s value would have been inflated away … just like every other paper currency which has ever existed.